Untitled
photographic
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Untitled is a photographic by Lawrie Lee, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This is a black-and-white photo of three stone carvings. They look like broken columns with strange faces carved into them. The faces have wild hair and sharp teeth. Above each face is a block with swirly designs. These carvings are old and worn, showing cracks and damage. The photo was taken in 1938, as marked in the corner. Check out the Victoria and Albert Museum to see more pieces like this.
A photograph is mounted on green card as part of a collection bequeathed by William Kineton Parkes in 1938. Kineton Parkes, a novelist, art historian, and librarian known for his work on sculpture, solicited responses from sculptors in the 1920s through questionnaires, with this image being one of many submissions he received.
Read the full account in the museum source.
Lawrie Lee spent his days carrying a beat-up Kodak around London’s back alleys and canal bridges, always on the lookout for stray cats or kids kicking cans.
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